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Hi, this is my second time asking a question....both were on logarithms :(\r
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document.write( "Because can be rewritten as  ,
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document.write( "it was = . Then,\r
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document.write( "Thus,  \r
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document.write( "But I don't know what to do next. Or did I do wrong from the beginning?\r
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document.write( "I know there could be another way... for example... making =  to make the same base for both sides. But still, I don't know what to do next.\r
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document.write( "Could you please teach me how to solve this problem in those two ways?
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document.write( " ------ Applying change of base
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document.write( " ----- Changing base on right to base 2
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document.write( " ------- Cross-multiplying
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document.write( "(x - 1)(x + 2) = 0
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document.write( " OR x = - 2 (ignore)\r
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document.write( "After you'd obtained, = , you should have had:  , which is
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document.write( "the same as: 
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document.write( " ------- Squaring both sides
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document.write( "Go on to solve for x.
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